Do Your Pleats "WAGGLE"

**McClef** · 5th March 12, 04:45 AM

Originally Posted by pugcasso

So the next time your walking down the street with the pleats waggling back and forth, just think of the pigeon.

Not unless I am rapidly moving my head back and forth as they do when walking.

**Calico** · 6th March 12, 02:42 PM

I should think waggling would be what I would do with my eyebrows while swishing my pleats if a lovely young thing looks back over her shoulder at me in my kilt after we pass one another...

Just kidding, spouse of mine! I would never really do that!

**Riverkilt** · 4th March 12, 12:37 PM

I can waggle my pleats pretty good when I'm dancing kilted

**Tartan Tess** · 4th March 12, 12:49 PM

When I make a kilt, I don't intend for them to "Waggle" I intend for them to swish.
Waggle sounds too Doctor Seuss for me.

**Riverkilt** · 4th March 12, 12:56 PM

As mentioned before I hate dictionary definitions....but looked both words up anyway.

Okay - waggle is the ACTION pleats make when they move, swish is the SOUND pleats make when they move.

So, both are good..."His waggling pleats swished as he passed..."

Here's a guy at the Phoenix Highland Games in 2008 who doesn't wanna risk any pleat waggle....or swish....

**Bugbear** · 4th March 12, 04:54 PM

I thought we also used the word "swing" for pleats, but I haven't seen it in this thread, so maybe not...
Oh well.

**sydnie7** · 4th March 12, 10:31 PM

Sorry, but a dog wags its tail.

"Swagger + waggle = swoon"? I think not. . .

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**Four** · 7th March 12, 05:57 AM

I believe my grandmother always refers to it as a swish, and the walk itself, the scottish swagger.

I cant ever tell if mine does, i look dumb walking in circles trying to look at my but.

**ForresterModern** · 7th March 12, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by Four

I believe my grandmother always refers to it as a swish, and the walk itself, the scottish swagger.

As a longstanding member of the "Thoreau Sauntering Society" my routine civilian mode of ambulation is the " saunter", a more relaxed and less goal directed mode of getting about, which still gives one enough albeit slower and less exaggerated hip motion to activate the pleat swish in a pleasingly casual way. This is my usual mode at say a highland games where there is lots of time to see the sites and I am also doing a lot of people watching simultaneously and inconspicuously. However, often when kilted I am a bit more dressed up at semi-dress or dress level of attire, at which times I have been told I am indeed more confident, directed and purposeful in my activity and my baseline saunter does indeed transition up into a true swagger, with the resultant increase in waggle, pleat swing, and swish (aka the activated "peacock effect"). Mind you, I too do not follow myself around or look in mirrors or video to verify this myself (that might be considered vain by many) but now with the advent of cheap small video cameras I may need to revisit this as I am planning on doing with my golf swing this spring and summer. Luckily since I frequently play golf kilted I should be able to kill two birds with one stone. Will keep you posted, although I do not intend on posting video of my own **** on you-tube or anything like that.

**Riverkilt** · 7th March 12, 07:14 AM

Don't know where you are in the World Four - but my local supermarket has a surveillence camera in the liquor aisle. And they have a big screen tv at the end of the aisle to prove the camera is on. I can walk down the aisle and look at the screen and see my pleat swish/waggle from the front side anyway....maybe there's a set up like that near you.